Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-03
GREAT RANCHES.

The Area, Annual Products and 0iIler
Data Concerning Them.
There are sors,e fine properties in the
country tributary to Willows. n. d.
Rideout has 10000 acres, six miles south.
1t is all level plains land, and IS all under
the plow. The flowing we'll before alluded
to is on this tract. There are two Gne or
ehards and vineyards on the place, showing
its adaptability to fruit and grape-growing.
The tract Is all thoroughly improved, and
it win be divided and sold to home-seezers
in quantities to suit.
Northeast of this tract Judge |. :.
Belcher has coo acres Of good ilaprove,i
land which viii be sold, aud il Is all entire
orchard or vineyard land.
General CadYalader has large BODY Of
land for sale in this vicinity. The Walsh
| tract is near the Sacramento river, on the
dark alluyium. 1t contains several thou
sand acres, and is well adapted to all kinds
of fruit trees and vines.
THE CELEBRATED GLENN RANCH
Has worldwide reputation, anG needs no
description here. The great ranch cor
totlliS 1J.pVO 'iNAtS VI iiliNl, tNSII lOOJ Ol
which is under the plow. 1t is all under
the best of board fences, and it has build
| ings enough to make respectable town if
they were collected together. There are
several fine houses, immense barns and
| corrals, great lodging-houses, larger than
ordinary hotels, large implement and tool
houses and extensive shops OF all kinds.
There is also store and hotel on the place
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vested this year. which yielded $4,000
acres of wheat, or 7S7 500 bushels. This
is 49,550,000 pounds 24,775 tons; z,477
ten-ton carloads $50 train loads OF Is cars
each. This ranch has six miles of water
front and several steamer landings, from
which the grain is shipped. In plowing
time there are y eight-mule or horse
teams turning over this rich soil from sum
rise to sunset. In harvest time there are 500
men on the pay-rolls. Everything in use
on this great ranch is of the best-men,
horses, mules, implements and seed-the
perfection of grain farming. All this
great property is admirably adapted to
varied farming, grain. grass, fruit and veg
etable growing.
IT WILL SOON BE BROKEN Up.
This land is much too valuable for or
chards and vineyards 10 be long devoted to
wheat growing. a few years, at farthest,
will see il sold in small lots to horticult-
urists, and then there will be such changes
as can not now he fully loreseen. There
will be more than a thousand families in
place of the hall-dozen now, and a thou
sand houses in place of the present num-
Der. There would be required in the hight
of the fruit picking season at least 10000
men, women and children to pick and pack
the fruit, and the drying, eyaporating and
canning incidental to such a vast fruit pro-
duct would employ some thousands more.
SUCH A VAST FRUIT PRODUCT,
With the attendant industries, would make
Willows place of 1900 people, and there
are now living people of middle age who
will see all this, and much more, accom-
plished. A pen picture Of all the great
ranches around Willows, which must give
way before the advancing tide of inlmi-
grafton now moving to these shores, and
the irresistible forces they will bring with
them, and be divided and devoted to rural
farming, would fill volume.
THE MARKETS.
Before speaking of the Junction City,'a
few words regarding the markets for the
products of this upper country viii be in
place. Heretofore all the country north
of Marysyiile and Woodland have been
placed at great disadvantage in market
ing fruit and vegetables. In order to reach
the East the producers had to pay local
rate on their products to get them to Sac
rament, where it could take advantage of
the fast and cheap fruit trains. This con-
sumed one day, and their fruit was that
much longer on the road to market. IL
ninety days from date all this will he
changed. There viii then be through
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